Opinion pieces

There are very few stories told about how it feels to be abandoned at birth. It makes Sindi’s amazing account of being aborted and abandoned when her mother was six months pregnant even more powerful. Miraculously, she survived her abandonment, and is now in her 40s. Despite her prematurity and a very unsettled childhood, where she was moved from one...

by Robyn Wolfson Vorster Dear Penny, We have never met but I have known you my whole life. I’ve seen you in shops and on public transport, you have sidled up to me at parties, you even appeared at extended family gatherings when I was a child. Perhaps you thought I was happy to chat, to hear you...

by Robyn Wolfson Vorster An open letter to aborted twin girls. Dear Innocents, Today could have been your birthday. Instead it marks a month since your mother aborted you, placed you in a plastic bag and left you under a “safe abortions” sign. Now I think about you every day. So many questions remain unanswered: Why did your...